Russia has beefed up its military force and stepped up its bombing in preparation for an offensive on the southern front, where positions have remained largely unchanged in recent months, a Ukrainian military spokesman said today. A Russian attack on the southern region of Zaporizhia would pose a challenge to the Ukrainian armed forces, which are already struggling on the eastern front but still hold territory in Russia’s Kursk region, near the northern border. “The Russians have been preparing for some time, for weeks, to conduct offensive operations in several directions, mainly in the direction of Zaporizhia,” Vladyslav Volochin, a spokesman for the Ukrainian military in the southern sector, told AFP. He clarified that the Russian army is strengthening its forces in the Bremivka, Gulyapole and Robotine sectors. He added that the attackers conduct daily reconnaissance missions and deploy armored vehicles. Volochin declined to state the number of Russian soldiers who have been massed in this sector of the front. He said Ukrainian forces had reinforced the lines […]
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